French v. Rishell’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 468 - People v. Sims (1982), 7 Cal. 3d 616 - Unruh v. Truck Insurance Exchange (1972)
9 federal appellate · 125 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hilton v. Guyot · 19 Cal. 2d 807 - Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association · Duprey v. Shane · Western Metal Supply Co. v. Pillsbury · Price v. Sixth District Agricultural Assn.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall not be bound by the common law or statutory rules of evidence and procedure, but may make inquiry in the manner, through oral testimony and records, which is best calculated to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties and carry out justly the spirit and provisions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“during a period while such member is in the service of such department”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allowed to receive hearsay evidence and to proceed informally....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.